When we writing a review or paper, there would not be about question about plagiarism just write in our own words. Though when we writing introduction or background part of any articles sometimes there we refer few previous data.
For a high impact factor journals what is the criteria of plagiarism percentage for the publication of a new research article? Is there any limit?
Please be clear between Plagiarism and Similarity ratio. these two are completely different things and often misunderstood as being same.
Plagiarism can be stealing someone's idea, technique, algorithm, text, equations, figures, tables, diagrams, flowcharts, framework/models etc., and stating them as your own. therefore there should be 0% plagiarism.
Similarity is usually associated with only text , which is copy pasted and end up as being exactly same.
Normally an acceptable similarity ratio is less then 20%, reflecting similar or same words/sentences .
Software's like Turnitin or ithenticate only check for Similarity ratio, with text matching techniques. they don't give your the plagiarism report.
We as a researcher have to extremely avoid plagiarism and other in-ethical behavior in our publications, beside that I do agree with our professor Dr. Ian outstanding post(s).
Warm regards, Emad
None really- although you may occasionally see a few research papers where the authors paraphrase small fractions of their own previous work (which they also cite of course). A 25% of such self-plagiarism is acceptable. For more infornation see:
https://www.editage.com/insights/is-it-self-plagiarism-to-use-the-introduction-of-my-published-paper-for-another-manuscript
Plagiarism and high-impact journals have no connection. Most respected journals use appropriate plagiarism detection software. Researches are not supposed to copy-paste in original work. If you want to take exact statement from previous work it should be quoted and cited. I personally feel copy-pasting is sometimes a result of laziness. Many well established professors simply copy-paste their introduction and experimental section. However some plagiarism check software may detect phrases such as your institute name address, scientific terms "and the solution turned green", "steady state absorption and emission spectrometer" as plagarised word. The authors should try to rephrase such phrases or they may be simply ignored.
Hi,
No plagiarism should be included in a quality paper. Plagiarism is not a recommended practice, and , in fact, there are many plagiarism checkers on the net that can discover if a science work is plagiarized.
For plagiarism, ZERO “0%” for sure. research article is made to reveal valuable information and share them, not to steal!!
However, in my opinion, some sentences that are definitions are of course reused many times, and plagiarism in those sentences is hard to avoid, but commonly accepted.
Now for self-plagiarism, it is a different. Someone can reuse some text from its previous work or even extend a conference paper to a journal paper, in this case it depends.
It is true that the acceptable percentage of plagiarism in articles submitted for publication in many peer-review journals could be equal or less than 15%, maybe it’s due to the accuracy of a plagiarism checker which is not perfect I think.
Best regards,
Youcef
Please be clear between Plagiarism and Similarity ratio. these two are completely different things and often misunderstood as being same.
Plagiarism can be stealing someone's idea, technique, algorithm, text, equations, figures, tables, diagrams, flowcharts, framework/models etc., and stating them as your own. therefore there should be 0% plagiarism.
Similarity is usually associated with only text , which is copy pasted and end up as being exactly same.
Normally an acceptable similarity ratio is less then 20%, reflecting similar or same words/sentences .
Software's like Turnitin or ithenticate only check for Similarity ratio, with text matching techniques. they don't give your the plagiarism report.
In research paper, there are many sections: Introduction, Previous Studies, Proposed Work, Results and Discussions, and Evaluation. For introduction and previous studies sections, 20-30% similarity is acceptable. Whereas, similarity of other sections (proposed work, results and discussions, and evaluation) should not exceed 5%.
But, then how do you reliably and repeatedly measure similarity? For a desk review or original research?? For figures?? for equations?? At the Word level?? With or without deliberate typos?? At the Phrase Level?? Paragraph Level?? Idea level?? Exact correspondence?? Tolerant correspondence?? With or without synonyms?? Without quoted sentences?? Including incorrectly quoted sentences?? With or without missing citations?? With or without allowable self-citations?? Against what corpus of literature?? As captured when?? By whose authority?? Audited by who??
I think there are common points between similarity and plagiarism, especially if the research is developed by someone who has experience in this field.
The two cases should be rejected, with harsh determinants.
Plagiarism means using the exact words from another source without attribution. There should be no plagiarism.
Paraphrasing and re-wording ideas from another source does not meet the definition of plagiarism, but in academic writing should still be cited.
Using a general idea from another source, and the doing your own literature review, research, and analysis is not plagiarism. It would be polite to acknowledge the inspiration, but maybe not absolutely necessary.
Plagiariam is not accepted at all. You can cite as much as you want, but plagiarism is absolutely out of question in any serious journal. In fact most of them have some kind of software to detect plagiarism.
If you are good writer and want to achieve something good result in your specialise field always think about “zero plagiarism”. Maintenance zero plagiarism is an art and there are some parameters that you try to follow.
I agree with Zeeshan Bhati. Of course zero plagiarism with less than 20% word similarity.
For the plagiarism, it is “0%” in my opinion. Research article should be the original and not be duplicate or stolen. There should be no place for plagiarism in our research work.
I doubt you can get 0% from turnitin (if you upload full manuscript to the system) since it will search and match with content from other sources in their databases.. as commented by other members above, below 20% is acceptable but ideally below 10%
0% for plagiarism and no limit for citing within ethical boundaries such as using quotations etc. As a general approach it should be your study not the others' mix!
Forbidden plagiarism ! I see that you are mistaking between plagiarism and using text with reference from other works.
You can cited other works in your work. For example, in thesis, the acceptance is less than 25%.
Generally, similarity should be below 25%. try to make it minimum.
There should be 0% plagiarism (ideally), but a good research publisher have limit of 5%-10% and maximum you can have 19% (that's is last limit i think)
Under 10%, suggesting that the researcher did not commit the plagiarism.
For the intellectual properties such as a copyright or a patent, please refer to this article: Article Is Your Idea Safe?
The checking procedure must have some standard rule. The software is always scanning the document with similarities of words. It cannot differentiate the actual meaning of similarity check. E.g. during checking, it considers the affiliation , authors name etc. The name and make of the characterizing tools are usually same for a group. Software has counted the same. So , considering these points some guideline should be there for evaluating a research paper.
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Hi
I have an issue in plagiarism. I have checked my paper, the plagiarism is less than 10% (I used Turnitin to check). But my paper was rejected because plagiarism is 19%. Anyone has such experience before and could you share with me how to solve this issue.
Thanks in advance.
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